Improvement in combined clock and calendar case



v ma. MOTT. COMBINED CLOCK AND CALENDAR CASE. 194,558.

Patented Aug. 28,1877.

N. PEIER3. PHOTO-LITHOGRAPHER, WASHINGTON. l)v C.

UNITED STATES r i l i x PATENT OF ICE;

THOMAS H. MOTT, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

' IMPROVEMENT IN COMBINED CLOCK AND CALENDAR CASE.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 194,558, dated August 28, 1877 application filed July 14, i877.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS H. MOTT, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented, as a new article of manufacture, a Combined Clock and Calendar Case or Frame, which will be more fully set forth in the description. and claims, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of case. Fig. 5 is a detached side view of the calendar-case. Fig. 6 is a front view of the same.

The object of my invention is to facilitate the application of calendars to clocks, and thus enable the manufacturer and tradesman to sell each part separately, and yet be combined together in one case, without change of construction of the two independent cases, or destroying their esthetic efi'ects when so joined together.

Letter A represents the dial plate, and B the case, of an ordinary suspension office-clock, except as to the front of the case or door, which has been omitted as not material to a proper understanding of my invention.

Letter 0 represents an ordinary calendar dial-plate attached to a case or frame, D.

In the lower end of the frame, at the back of the dial, are secured in the usual way the train of wheels for registering the days of the month, &c., while its upper ends are prolonged upward, so as to reach the top of the clockcase when the two are combined together. To effect this operation without destroying the esthetic effects of the clock and calendar when joined together, I make the calendar case large enough to admit the clock-case to enter it somewhat like a telescope-tube. Then, b means of screws E and F, through the side of the cases, as shown in Fig. 4, securely locl the two independent cases together. i

As clock-cases as a rule are made accordin to a scale of sizes or dimensions, it will be ob vious that, by observing these rules in the con struction of the independent calendars, the may be applied to the clock at any time, with out change of construction of the cases, b the simple attachment of the transmittin gear-wheels and lever to the clock-works i the ordinary way of making such connectiong in calendar-clocks. 2

When the clock cases are not of the regula scale of sizes, or, for other causes, it woul not be practicable to apply the regular standr ard calendar-cases, the back of the calendari case, by extending it up the back of the clock case, may be used without the addition of th sides extending up to the same height; or th sidesonly may be used without the back 0 the calendar-case to combine the two indeq pendent cases together. Having now described my invention, I will set forth what I claim and desire to secure by, Letters Patent of the United States. I claimi 1. As a new article of manufacture, a cal endar-clock case or frame composed of an in dependent clock-case and an independent cal endar-case, when joined together substantially in the manner set forth. 2 2. As a means of attaching a separate am} independent calendar to a separate and inde pendent clock-case, the prolongated sides 0 back of the calendar-case, in combination withl the calendar-clock works, substantially as here inbefore set forth. 5

THOMAS H. MOTT.

Witnesses:

CHARLES L. BABBITT, R. ROWLEY. 

